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χειά?

First declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration: cheia

Principal Part: χειά

Etym.: From Root  ΧΑ, χάσκω.

Sense

  1. a hole

Examples

  • "ἥ τε γὰρ ἱσταμένη καλιὰς ἐνταῦθα περὶ τὴν ἅλω δι ἐννέα ἐτῶν οὐ φωλεώδης τοῦ δράκοντος χειά, ἀλλὰ μίμημα τυραννικῆς ἢ βασιλικῆς ἐστιν οἰκήσεως: (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 15 4:3)
  • ἥβαν γὰρ οὐκ ἄπειρον ὑπὸ χειᾷ καλῶν δάμασεν. (Pindar, Odes, isthmian odes, isthmian 8 22:2)

Synonyms

  1. a hole

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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